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Anonymous 75 | The Devil in the shape of a snake, who visits Anne Styles in Stockbridge while a Gentleman prays for her, after she signed her soul to the Devil. Anne Styles is physically tormented during the four days of prayer when Anonymous 75 (the Devil) visits her. | Foure days together she was vert tormented grieviously
And in her mind was fore perplex[]
That some thought she would []
Lon[]
The Divell like a Snake apeard
Which all the country people feard
You that will goe, &c,
Appears in:
Anonymous. The Salisbury Assizes. Or the Reward of Witchcraft. London: 1653, 2
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